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Just a quickie, because my lunch break isn't so long.

#CuratorPrompts #CuratorPrompts182#mastoart #pixelart #aseprite

And yes, that's the cat from the other image on the roof, because I suck at drawing animals close up (it's on the list -_-)

Pixelart painting of: "A dirt path leading along the edge of a mountain to further snowy peaks in the distance. There's a little building crossing the path, with white-painted walls and a red roof." And there is a cat on the roof.



Copernicus Climate Bulletin


September 2024 was 1.54°C above the pre-industrial level globally, the second highest ever recorded (2023 was the highest). Note the graph shows year to date running average not individual months' records, which is a bit confusing.

September kept 2024 on track to be the warmest year on record, with the global average temperature anomaly for January-September 2024 0.71°C above the 1991-2020 average, which is 0.19°C warmer than the same period in 2023.



Thankfully Milton was not as bad as we had feared, that Hospital in Tampa survived. But how many lives have been ruining by the carnage?

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o…

#HurricaneMilton #Milton #Florida



#Gaza #Palestine

The UK Foreign Office has refused to say whether the Israeli military’s current conduct in Lebanon is being factored into assessments about its capability and commitment to comply with international humanitarian law.

British NGO`s have called on the UK government to impose a total arms embargo on Israel, warning that UK-made weapons still being licensed for export directly or indirectly to Israel leave the government “complicit in atrocities”.

middleeasteye.net/news/uk-wont…

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#Musk’s ‘Free’ #Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free - techdirt.com/2024/10/10/musks-… now, there's a surprise... it's almost as if this man is all mouth and no trousers


Another vestige of #Ubuntu from desktops that I recently switched to #Debian, gone… A while ago Ubuntu decided #sshd should run as a #systemd socket instead of a service. I didn't like the change but didn't want to diverge from "standard" so I switched. But sometimes you have to ssh into a machine 2 or 3 times before it works, and when you upgrade systemd remotely the sshd socket can break and lock you out of the machine. I just switched back to using Debian standard ssh.service. 🎉
#linux

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#Gaza #Palestine

A coalition of Palestinian and Dutch civil society organisations has filed a lawsuit against the government of the Netherlands, accusing it of failing to prevent genocide in Gaza and other Israeli violations of international law.

The case, brought before a Dutch civil court today, seeks to compel the Netherlands to take decisive action against Israel’s ongoing military operations and the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

middleeastmonitor.com/20241010…

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Feathers

via historicalbookimages

🪶 Faune de la Sénégambie /. Paris: O. Doin, 1883-1887.

#books



A former FBI agent suggested that Vladimir Putin likely kept recordings of his many phone calls with former President Trump.

Asha Rangappa, a former FBI special agent, wrote on social media platform X that it is “almost certain” Russia has recordings of Trump’s phone calls with with Putin from over the years.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

nj.com/politics/2024/10/ex-fbi…


in reply to Robert Reich

"#Trump's #Project2025 is bad news for anyone on #Medicare. It would let #BigPharma jack up the price of lifesaving medicines. Right now, Medicare is able to negotiate prescription drug prices for the first time ever, thanks to the #InflationReductionAct. This will cut prices on the ten most commonly used drugs by as much as 80%, saving seniors & taxpayers billions of dollars. Project 2025 would eliminate this. See page 465."
youtu.be/KvUVQ4ooSYg
#USPolitics @uspolitics


Are you curious what goes into developing an operating system #OS? Want to know how all that code is reviewed, tested, and deployed? Join @kernellinux@linuxrocks.online and I as we talk to Adam, a Quality Assurance engineer on the @fedora project! You can catch the audio version: podcast.fedoraproject.org/38 #opensource #foss #linux #podcast


At the moment a clean #manjaro #linux installation will fail the first time you try to update the system, so at first boot 😞


📢Mark your calendars - Linaro Connect 2025 is set to take place in sunny Lisbon!🌞 Registration and CFP coming soon - to learn more check out our webpage: ow.ly/p5XX50TIIFh #opensource #collaboration #arm #software


Decided to read some @mwl fiction this vacation. Both "$ git commit murder" and "$ git sync murder" did very nicely to get my mind off work while at the beach. Compared to something like Paul Auster's post-modern crime novels, the events feel almost relatable/believable. I wouldn't mind following a column detailing Dale's future hacking tales, be it on the BSD or exploitation front.

The real surprise however was discovering "Bedazzled by Blockchain". Somehow this one slipped under my radar and turned out to be written in a smoother/raunchier tone than "Savaged by systemd". If a third part is meant to happen, I'd throw "Gobbled up by GenAI" into the ring :)



🚨BREAKING: Britain is returning Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

How will this affect the .io domain and your tuta.io email address?

Find out now! ➡️ tuta.com/blog/what-happens-wit…

in reply to Tuta

As the Chagos Islanders receive no benefit from the use of this ccTLD, now would seem the perfect opportunity to ditch your .io email address.


A displaced child holds her sibling, at the city’s downtown business district, where their families shelter, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in #Beirut, #Lebanon, Thursday [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]

@palestine
#displaced
#children



Tampa Public Radio (WUSF) has a text only site for those with poor cell phone connectivity. wusf.org/text #Tampa #Milton #hurricane #FLwx


A great companion story to my recent post about the crypto industry legitimizing itself by spending more money on corporate lobbying than every other industry besides the oil industry.

A crypto power couple that gave tens of millions to Republican politicians are now both facing jail time for financial crimes.

The future of money, indeed.

nytimes.com/2024/10/10/technol…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

it's crimes all the way down. Promoting crypto ought to disqualify someone from any position of authority in either finance or tech. By the way, do you know Sam Altman's pre-OpenAI gig?
in reply to Dare Obasanjo

There is also this eye-opening article in The New Yorker: "Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster" newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10…


📷: View of the damaged roof of Tropicana Field stadium, the home of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, after Hurricane Milton made landfall, in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, October 10, 2024.

voanews.com/a/powerful-hurrica…
#voanews